Knitted stocking



Oct. 10, 1933. A, SANDERSQN 1,930,397

KNITTED STOCKING Filed Jan. 29, 1952 2 She ets-Sheet 1 A INVENTOR AUGUST A. SANDERSON BY HIS ATTORNEYS MMM Oct, 10 1933. A SSSS R QN 1,930,397

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8 Claims.

This invention relates to knitted stockings and more particularly to means for limiting so-called runs or laddering in stockings. The object of the invention is to produce a construction which will resist runs and render them harmless.

As is well known, the greater majority of runs originate at the upper end of the stocking, either in the welt or in the upper part of the leg, and spread downwardly. The invention which will now be described is designed to limit those runs or divert and stop them before they can damage the appearance of the stocking. This invention involves the knitting into the upper part of the leg, as part of the fabric constituting the leg, a plurality of wales which will lie diagonally,-i. e., obliquely, in the fabric instead of lengthwise of the leg, these wales constituting a strip preventing runs progressing down the leg.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is an elevation of the front of the stocking containing one form of my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar view of a modified form of my invention;

Figure 3 is a diagram of the interlooping of the threads at the front of the stocking shown in Figure 1; while Figure 4 is a diagram of one part of the interlooping in the modified form shown in Figure 2.

In the drawings, the stocking is shown having a welt 6 at the upper end of the stocking, although it will be obvious that the invention is equally applicable to the so-called weltless stocking. The stocking also has a seam 7 up the back, which seam is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 by means of a dot and dash line, the view of the welt and leg in these figures being of the front of the stocking. The leg 8 may be either full-fashioned or seamless, the seam in the latter case being a mock seam. The diagonal strips of fabric 9 and 10 constitute the run detouring means of the invention, each strip being constituted of a plurality of wales which are indicated in Figures 1 and 2 by lines lying obliquely to the length of the leg. The strip 9 commences at the center of the stocking in front and goes around the left side of the stocking, as shown in Fig. 1, to the rear, where it meets the corresponding strip 10 coming from the front of the stocking around the other side. The two strips therefore completely encircle the upper end of the stocking. This is the preferred construction, although it will be obvious that some of the advantages of the invention can be obtained if the strips do not encircle the entire stocking. These diagonal wales are in a sloping direction on the stocking, the slope in the example shown in the drawings being downwardly, toward the rear of the stocking. It will be obvious that the slope 00 may be toward the front of the stocking and further that the exact angle of slope may be varied. Thus in Fig. 1, one angle of the slope is shown, while in Fig. 2 a different angle of slope is illustrated. In both these examples, 5 however, the groups of oblique wales end above the leg-fashioning marks. In order to obtain this oblique direction in these wales, the loops formed on the needles in those wales are transferred laterally, the loops in the strip 9 being 70 transferred to the left, as the stocking appears in Fig. 1, and the loops in the strip 10 being transferred to the right. In the case of a fullfashioned stocking, this is a transfer of needle wales from the center of the blank toward the 15 edges of the blank. It will be noted that in the resulting structure there are a plurality of needle wales which are at an oblique angle both to the wales and the courses in the main body of the leg. This transfer may be done by means of lace points or the like, and the actual number of wales transferred may be varied as desired, although I find it preferable to use at least two wales. This lateral transfer of loops may take place in every course, as shown in Fig. 4, or in every other course, as shown in Fig. 3, or at greater intervals if desired. Referring to Fig. 3, the needle wales in which shogging occurs in the left hand strip 9 are designated by the reference characters 11, 12, 13, 14, reading from the center of the stocking out, and the wales having transfer loops in the right hand strip 10 are designated by the reference characters 15, 16, 1'7, 18. It will be observed that where the outside wales 14 and 18 intermesh with the ordinary vertical wales 19 there are stitches comprised of two loops, one of them being a laterally transferred loop 20. This of course gives a run-resisting structure and it will be obvious that the presence of the runresisting structure at the upper sloping edge of the diagonal strips 9 and 10 forms a valuable feature of the invention. Thus a run starting in an ordinary Wale 19 which meets the upper sloping edge of either the strip 9 or the strip 10 (for instance, at the point marked by the arrows 21 in Figs. 1 and 2) will be stopped when it meets this upper sloping edge. A run starting above the strips 9 and 10 in one or more of the wales 11 to 18, inclusive, (which 110 stopped. Similarly, if a run is big enough andthe tension is great enough for a run in the ordinary wales 19 at, say, the point 21 to get through the transferred loops 20, the run will find itself in the oblique wales 11 to 18, incluthe rear of the stocking. In this way-the runs are not only limited as to the distance they can travel, but they are also diverted from the front of the stocking before they can do any harm. It will be noted for instance in the drawings,

--that the strips 9 and 10 are shown as beginning at the front of the stocking near the welt and that the lines are so located as to divert runs before they can progress below the knee. This invention therefore insures that the front of the stocking is saved from runs beginning above the knee. It also protects the back of the stocking above the oblique strips including any runs which may originate at "flare narrowings" under the knee. Thus there is complete assurance that no run will mark the visible portion --of the leg of the stocking.

- be left without a stitch on it at one end of each group of transferred loops, this occurring at .the opposite end of the group from the part where the stitch with two loops in it is located, 1.. e.', at the lower edge of each diagonal strip 9 and 10. With this structure the opening 23 is left at the point where the empty needle occurs. If there is a transfer of loops at every course the fabric will have the appearance illustrated by Fig, 4. While it is preferable to transfer loops laterally over only one needle, it is within the scope of the invention to transfer loops a greater distance.

It will be obvious that these wales can be knit as part of the courses in which their stitches occur and from the same yarn as that with which the remainder of the leg is knit, by means of transfer points, as already mentioned.

What I claim is: 1. A knitted stocking having wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof in combination with strips knit in the upper part of the leg having a plurality of wales running obliquely to the wales of the main body of the leg adapted to divert runs starting above it, said lengthwise wales being continued below said strips.

'to limit runs sive, and will again be diverted or detoured to mg the upper part or the stock 2. A knitted stocking having wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof and a seam at the back of the leg, incombination with a plurality of wales running diagonally downward toward the rear of the stocking terminating at the seam to limit runs in said stocking.

3. A knitted stocking having a full-fashioned leg containing wales running lengthwise thereof, a'seam at the back of the stocking, and a plurality of wales in the leg running diagonally downward toward the rear of the stocking terminating above the courses containing the leg fashioning marks, said diagonal wales serving 4. A knitted stocking having a welt and a leg containing wales running lengthwise thereof, and a group of oblique wales insaid leg whom upper ends are near the welt at the front of the stocking and their lower ends at the back, said oblique wales being shogged to prevent runs passing down through them.

-5. A knitted stocking having wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof and a seam at the back thereof, in combination with a plurality 1 of wales encircling the stocking near the upper part of the leg, every course in said encircling wales being shogged toward the rear of the leg from the position of the preceding course in said wales to limit runs.

6. A knitted stocking having wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof in combination with a group of wales in the upper part of the leg running obliquely to the wales of the main body of the leg, the upper sloping edge of said group 110 having stitches therein containing a plurality of loops of which one loop is a laterally transferred loop, said group of wales limiting runs, thelre being lengthwise wales below said oblique wa es.

7. A knitted stocking having wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof in combination with a strip knit in the upper part of the leg having a plurality of wales cutting obliquely across lengthwise wales of the leg adapted to divert 120 runs starting above it from the lengthwise wales below said oblique strip.

8. A knitted stocking having'wales in the leg running lengthwise thereof in combination with a group of wales in the upper part of the leg 1 5, 

